“This is not my favorite band,” exclaims filmmaker Alex Ross Perry about the indie rock group Pavement, who is the subject of his documentary Pavements .

That’s not a ding. The Stockton, CA born band, which came together in 1989, was the type of group you wouldn’t necessarily find on the top of a stack of alternative rock CDs alongside Red Hot Chili Peppers, Offspring, Garbage and President of the United States. And that’s because Pavement was a band that did it their way at a time when those groups who were breaking through were…selling out. Quite often one music video alone (i.e. “Don’t Let’s Start” from They Might Be Giants, “Come Out and Play” from Offspring) were the defining moments for such nice bands, catapulting them to greater marquee and million-plus album sales success in

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